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Have Gun, Will TravelSeason 1

The first season of Have Gun — Will Travel originally aired Saturdays at 9:30-10:00 pm on CBS from September 14, 1957 to June 14, 1958. The Region 1 DVD was released on May 11, 2004.

Episodes

  • E01 Three Bells to Perdido

    8.0

    Sep 14, 1957 · 26m

    New Mexico rancher Jesse Reade hires Paladin for $1,000 to bring back outlaw Dave Enderly, who has run off to Perdido, Mexico with Reade's daughter Nancy.

  • E02 The Outlaw

    9.0

    Sep 21, 1957 · 26m

    Manfred Holt breaks out of jail, killing two deputies. Is he on his way to kill the banker who testified against him, or to see his family for the last time? The banker hires Paladin.

  • E03 The Great Mojave Chase

    Sep 28, 1957 · 26m

    A sportsman sponsors a contest, betting that no one can elude his posse in the Mojave Desert. When Paladin shows up riding a camel, the man decides that the only way he can still win is to get rid of Paladin.

  • E04 Winchester Quarantine

    Oct 5, 1957 · 26m

    At a stagecoach stop, Paladin sees a peaceful Cherokee rancher being beaten by white men who think his cattle are spreading a sickness. Paladin offers his help.

  • E05 A Matter of Ethics

    Oct 12, 1957 · 26m

    An accused murderer who fears that he will be lynched before he can be returned to Bender, Wyoming, for trial, hires Paladin to make sure he gets there alive.

  • E06 The Bride

    8.0

    Oct 19, 1957 · 26m

    When a mail-order bride from Philadelphia gets off the stagecoach in the middle of nowhere, Paladin decides to stay with her to make sure that she is safe.

  • E07 Strange Vendetta

    7.0

    Oct 26, 1957 · 26m

    Paladin's new friend, stabbed by an assassin, makes a dying request to have his body taken back home to his hacienda in Mexico.

  • E08 High Wire

    8.0

    Nov 2, 1957 · 26m

    A hobo who was once a circus performer bets a gambler that he can walk across the saloon on a tightrope. When Paladin sees that the gambler intends to cheat, he decides to help even the odds.

  • E09 Show of Force

    6.0

    Nov 9, 1957 · 26m

    After winning a batch of old rifles in a poker game, Paladin finds himself involved in a range war.

  • E10 The Long Night

    Nov 16, 1957 · 26m

    A wealthy cattleman holds Paladin and two other men hostage. They will all die at dawn unless one of them admits to the murder of the rancher's wife.

  • E11 The Colonel and the Lady

    Nov 23, 1957 · 26m

    A retired colonel sends Paladin to a Nevada mining town to find out what happened to a former saloon girl.

  • E12 No Visitors

    Nov 30, 1957 · 26m

    When Paladin finds a woman and her apparently typhoid-afflicted child abandoned by a wagonmaster, he enlists the aid of a female doctor from a nearby town, but a religious fanatic then tries to bar them from entry.

  • E13 The Englishman

    8.0

    Dec 7, 1957 · 26m

    Paladin escorts an Englishman to his female cousin's ranch they have inherited in Montana, but finds that an embittered trader is plotting against them.

  • E14 The Yuma Treasure

    8.0

    Dec 14, 1957 · 26m

    Accompanying a cavalry major on a mission to prevent a war by negotiating a treaty with an elusive Apache chief, Paladin must deal with soldiers who have caught gold fever.

  • E15 The Hanging Cross

    9.0

    Dec 21, 1957 · 26m

    On Christmas eve, an embittered rancher wants revenge on Pawnee Indians who he thinks kidnapped his son several years before.

  • E16 Helen of Abajinian

    8.0

    Dec 28, 1957

    An Armenian winemaker hires Paladin to find his runaway daughter and break up her ill-considered romance with a cowhand.

  • E17 Ella West

    7.0

    Jan 4, 1958

    The promoter of a wild west show asks Paladin for help taming down a very wild and famous female sharpshooter and show her how to act like a lady.

  • E18 The Reasonable Man

    8.0

    Jan 11, 1958

    A rancher having a dispute with his foster son hires Paladin to keep one of them from killing the other in a duel.

  • E19 The High-Graders

    8.0

    Jan 18, 1958

    When his tailor is killed in an accident at a supposedly worthless gold mine, Paladin discovers that the man was murdered and his heirs are being swindled.

  • E20 The Last Laugh

    7.0

    Jan 25, 1958 · 30m

    A rancher blames Paladin when a practical joke goes awry and his wife is crippled in a riding accident.

  • E21 The Bostonian

    8.0

    Feb 2, 1958 · 30m

    Paladin protects a new landowner from Boston, who is having an escalating feud with an established cattle rancher.

  • E22 The Singer

    7.0

    Feb 8, 1958 · 30m

    A cowboy seeks help for his former girlfriend, a dancehall singer, who he says was forced into marriage and is now being held prisoner.

  • E23 Bitter Wine

    7.0

    Feb 15, 1958 · 30m

    Paladin is hired to stop a vineyard from being ruined by seepage from an adjacent oil well.

  • E24 Girl from Piccadilly

    8.0

    Feb 22, 1958 · 30m

    Learning of his son's death, a rich man hires Paladin to locate the daughter-in-law he's never met, but Paladin finds two women both claiming to be her.

  • E25 The O'Hare Story

    8.0

    Mar 1, 1958 · 30m

    Hired to prevent the construction of a dam that would imperil a town's water supply, Paladin finds that he sympathizes more with the Irish engineer who's trying to build it.

  • E26 Birds of a Feather

    8.0

    Mar 8, 1958 · 30m

    Paladin must contend with other gunfighters as he tries to settle a right-of-way dispute between two railroads in a Colorado town that will die if they go elsewhere.

  • E27 The Teacher

    9.0

    Mar 15, 1958 · 30m

    Paladin defends a schoolmistress who's being theatened for teaching about war crimes that took place during the Civil War.

  • E28 Killer's Widow

    9.0

    Mar 22, 1958 · 30m

    After having killed a bank robber, Paladin is accused of having taken the stolen money. He visits the dead man's widow and tries to make amends.

  • E29 Gun Shy

    7.0

    Mar 29, 1958 · 30m

    Trying to locate the thieves who stole a jade chess set, Paladin ends up in a small Montana town where he becomes involved in a romance with a landlady's daughter.

  • E30 The Prizefight Story

    8.0

    Apr 5, 1958 · 30m

    When Paladin goes to a mining town to promote a prizefight, his boxer is arrested and he ends up having to take the man's place in the ring -- against the Welsh champion.

  • E31 Hey Boy's Revenge

    9.0

    Apr 12, 1958

    When Hey Boy's brother is killed for protesting the working conditions on a Chinese railroad gang in Utah, Paladin must get the boy out of jail and bring the killer to justice.

  • E32 The Five Books of Owen Deaver

    8.0

    Apr 26, 1958 · 30m

    Paladin comes to the aid of a young sheriff from the East whose attempts to keep law and order are particularly unsuitable for a cowboy town in Wyoming.

  • E33 The Silver Queen

    8.0

    May 3, 1958 · 30m

    Lonely Leadhead Kane dies and leaves his half of a mine to an actress. Kane's partner wants to challenge the will. Someone wants to make sure Paladin never gets the woman to the courtroom.

  • E34 Three Sons

    8.0

    May 10, 1958 · 30m

    Newlyweds with no place to stay end up in Paladin's suite. He learns that the groom's half-brothers are threatening to kill their father. Paladin goes to warn the father.

  • E35 The Return of Dr. Thackeray

    8.0

    May 17, 1958 · 30m

    Dr. Phyllis Thackeray diagnoses the cook at the Barton Ranch with smallpox. All the cowhands may be infected and need to be vaccinated. Dr. Thackeray sends for the one man she thinks can help.

  • E36 24 Hours at North Fork

    8.0

    May 24, 1958 · 30m

    When a blight kills all the crops except for one farmer's, Paladin must protect him from a greedy storekeeper who wants his farm and his hired gun who has a personal grudge against Paladin.

  • E37 Silver Convoy

    7.0

    May 31, 1958 · 30m

    Paladin is hired to find James Becker. He trails him to Monterey and discovers he has been arrested and is sentenced to work in a silver mine. Paladin finds that Becker has died in a cave-in or so he is told. The owner of the mine hires Paladin to guard a silver convoy, but first Paladin wants to find out a little more about the mine.

  • E38 Deliver the Body

    8.0

    Jun 7, 1958 · 30m

    Paladin is hired to bring in the killer of the sheriff in a Nevada town. He brings him in but has some doubts about his guilt and decides to hang around for the trial.

  • E39 The Statue of San Sebastian

    7.0

    Jun 14, 1958 · 30m

    Paladin agrees to capture an outlaw in return for a statue belonging to the local mission.

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